Build Critical Thinking Skills Using Distance Learning, Podcasting, Blogs, and Web Design

Build Critical Thinking Skills Using Distance Learning, Podcasting, Blogs, and Web
Design
Presenter: Sandra Keppel

Explore the power of using project-based learning that encompasses distance learning to
enhance critical thinking skills and create authentic assessment tools. Your students will be
empowered to write research papers, podcasting scripts, and blogs that address higher-order
thinking of synthesis and evaluation, as well as create their own web designs.

Podcast

Get a Voice in ESOL with Podcasting

Get a Voice in ESOL with Podcasting

Presenter: Liza Steffen & Randall Schenk

Give your ESOL students a reason to speak, a way to share their life experiences and dreams
and watch them take off. Do you want your students to practice their speech 38 times? At
Rochester Monroe High School we found that students are willing to practice numerous times in
order to make a podcast and be published at the ESOL website.

Podcast